Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field and Meena Kandasamy's Exquisite Cadavers are longlisted for this year's Dylan Thomas Prize. They feature among the seven novels, three poetry books, and two short story collections longlisted for the prize. Considered one of UK's most prestigious literary prizes, it is worth 30,000 pounds.
Madhuri Vijay (Image credits: Tanvi Rao) and Meena Kandasamy (Image credits: Teri Pingelly)
Madhuri's debut novel, published in January last year, is about Shalini, a 30-year-old woman from a well-to-do family in Bengaluru who is mourning the death of her mother.
New Delhi: The national capital witnessed a partly cloudy sky on Wednesday which brought the mercury down by a few notches giving respite to people.
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